Today I’m posting another pixel piece, which is -once again- based on some really old sketch from 2006. Yes, considering how slow I am at working off the pile of old scribblings from the first decade of the new millennium, I’ll probably still be using these ten years from now :D I used the Equpix15 palette by Night, which again I found on https://lospec.com. Grafx2, 224x256px, 15 colors.

It’s been quite a while since I last pixeled something. I had started working on something totally different but had the feeling that I wasn’t getting anywhere with it. Therefore I dove into my sketch folder again and dug up a crappy sketch from the last decade :D Not only was it crappy but also very incomplete so there was a lot to fill in and add upon. I recently stumbled upon the https://lospec.com/ website, which has quite a collection of color palettes. Thought I’d pick something nice from them. Eventually I decided to go with Dawnbringer’s db16. While it was fun to work with, I still can’t help but feel rather clumsy when using predefined palettes instead of just setting up colors of my own. Still need a lot of practice.

Guess what, this took longer than I expected (which may be because once again I didn’t draw a sketch in advance.. a really bad habit) but here’s the finished pic from the teaser I posted shortly before our vacation, a little over a month ago. Some blonde cutie taking selfies in a classroom… I heard somewhere that this is something that today’s young people do occasionally… with their mobile phones. Incredible! :D

I already posted the sketch to this image several years ago. Since then I had wanted to start working on the actual piece several times but never actually went on and did it. Our recent vacation seemed like a good time to pick this one up again. I got most of the inking done while we were away but didn’t manage to finish the piece entirely. Now it’s done. This time instead of one bone dude there are two… although admittedly in the case of the little fella it’s not fully clear if he really is a walking skeleton. Even back when I drew the sketch I wasn’t entirely sure about his nature and this hasn’t changed since then. Then again, I guess it doesn’t really matter. Let’s just say he’s a fun contrast to his hulking companion. For quite some time I was a bit unhappy with the color of the paper, since the white doesn’t „pop“ as nicely. Overall though, I think it came out okay. Btw. the majority of this was done with pencils that were sharpened/shortened down to little more than 1cm of length :D

Yo, vacation’s over and I’m reporting back. From the pics I had prepared and taken along I only managed to finish one. A second one I couldn’t finish in time because I was a bit lazy the second week and didn’t spend as many nights drawing (but hey, you don’t go on vacation only to be scribbling all the time, eh :) ). I’m gonna finish this one the next couple of days.

Here’s a little teaser for a new vector piece I’ve just begun working on, since we’re leaving for vacation tomorrow I won’t be able to finish it immediately, though. How I could have been thinking, even just for a minute, it’d be a good idea to start with this only two days before departure is beyond me :D Ah well, I’ll tend to it soon. For the vacation I’ve packed some analog drawing materials. So I’m prepared in case there are bad-weather-days when we can’t go for a hike and for any downtime that might be.

Another mainly unproductive and lazy week comes to an end. At least I can post a little teaser of some recent sketch work. Top left and bottom right are from this week, the other two I scribbled about a month ago. Top left piece will be done in vectors, the two on the right I plan to give a traditional treatment, i.e. ink + colored pencil. With the bottom left piece I haven’t decided yet.

And here’s yet another piece. I’m really having a run this week! A while ago I got another family request, for our father’s birthday. Unfortunately the pics I worked on previously took longer than expected. Therefore I didn’t have much time left, only about two days, and had to hurry quite a bit with this one. Otherwise I’d have loved to add more to it. But hey, I managed to finish it just in time and I think it turned out funny enough. So, without further words here’s the most realistic helicopter simluator drawing EVER. And yes, these simulators come with comfy armchairs :D